Archie Singham and the Non-Aligned Movement: PTTV Screening Event and Talk by Vijay Prashad

A special screening of two programmes that Paper Tiger Television made with Archie Singham, an esteemed professor of political science and committed intellectual closely associated with national liberation movements. The screening will be preceded by a live video introduction by renowned historian, editor, and journalist, Vijay Prashad, who will talk about Singham’s work and the Non-Aligned Movement.

The screened works are Archie Singham Reads Foreign Policy: A Look at the Old Boys’ Network (1982) and Archie Singham Reads the U.S. Press: How the U.N. is Trivialized (1986).

BIOGRAPHY

Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His books The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power (2022) and On Cuba (2024) were written in collaboration with Noam Chomsky.

Prashad is Executive Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is an editor at LeftWord Books (New Delhi), at Inkani Books (Johannesburg), and at La Trocha (Chile).

He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).